Emma Glassman-Hughes

the thousand rejections, you're bound to get some yeses, whether that's romantic partners or jobs or like community organizing or whatever it is that you're chasing.

Yeah.

You know, if we look around, like it's really hard to exist in the world right now.

And we're being inundated with distressing news event after news event.

And I think

Yearning could be seen as sort of a distraction from that, but I actually think it's sort of a grounding force almost.

Like, yearning is really located in the body, and it's this, like, deeply bodily, like, human experience to despair over, like, not having what you want and to feel the pain of being, like, so close yet so far away.

We're all familiar with the concept of exquisite pain.

And I think yearning can provide this sort of like masochistic joy too.

And like we all need more joy in our lives right now.

Yeah.

I think like when I think of yearning too, it's like the phrase that comes up is all consuming.

And I think, you know, like going back to like romance factor, like I'm in a long-term relationship right now.

So it's like kind of been a long time since I've had like a true crush.

But I actually really miss that.

I miss that feeling.

I would love to have that feeling again.

I think it's like...

I've talked about this with my friends too.

Like there's sort of a nostalgic quality to like some person sort of taking over your entire world, you know, for however long.